> We don't "celebrate" Napoleon
Huh, I must have visited a different country then. It seems there isn't a single Bridge, Column or otherwise important building in Paris that hasn't a pompous "N" mounted onto it.
Huh, I must have visited a different country then. It seems there isn't a single Bridge, Column or otherwise important building in Paris that hasn't a pompous "N" mounted onto it.
Those monuments are not celebrations of Napoleon..
I mean you have to willfully interprete the word "celebrating" as people dancing in the streets out of joy to read the parent's parent comment that way.
In other words: "It's in the background" rather means it's the foundation upon which (as other comments have pointed out) the French Revolution's winning side's narrative rests.
are hardly comparable to thousands of streets named after him, thousands of bridges wearing his enblem, and statues still standing.
Again "celebrating Napoleon" as in "in the background" as in "a foundation of the winning side's narrative"